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CVE-2019-11068

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

libxslt through 1.1.33 allows bypass of a protection mechanism because callers of xsltCheckRead and xsltCheckWrite permit access even upon receiving a -1 error code. xsltCheckRead can return -1 for a crafted URL that is not actually invalid and is subsequently loaded.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
• NetApp Cloud Backup: all versions
• NetApp E-Series Santricity Management Plug-Ins: all versions
• E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x: from 11.0 through 11.70.2
• NetApp E-Series Santricity Storage Manager: all versions
• NetApp E-Series Santricity Unified Manager: all versions
• NetApp E-Series Santricity Web Services Proxy: all versions
• NetApp Element Software: all versions
• NetApp Hci Management Node: all versions
• OnCommand Insight: all versions
• NetApp OnCommand Workflow Automation: all versions
• NetApp Plug-In For Symantec Netbackup: all versions
• NetApp Santricity Unified Manager: all versions
• SnapManager for Oracle: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire: all versions
• NetApp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: all versions
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1, 42.3
• Oracle Java SE: 8.0-update_221
• xmlsoft libxslt: through 1.1.33

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00048.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00052.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00053.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00025.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00001.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/22/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/23/5
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/commit/e03553605b45c88f0b4b2980adfbbb8f6fca2fd6
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00016.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/36TEYN37XCCKN2XUMRTBBW67BPNMSW4K/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GCOAX2IHUMKCM3ILHTMGLHCDSBTLP2JU/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SK4YNISS22MJY22YX5I6V2U63QZAUEHA/

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